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TeamProg's JournalBehind the Picture: Picasso Draws With Light
Through the 80's to 2000''s off and on, I experimented with flashes covered in colored gels to paint with light with an open shutter (on print film). Farther down are some open shutter pics of sand mermaids at night lit up by both my vehicle headlights and colored flashes, about yr 2000.
In looking into the history of it I read that Picasso was one of the early pioneers of light drawing. I just found this article online this morning to share here.
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https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/behind-the-picture-picasso-draws-with-light/
When LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949, the meeting of these two artists and craftsmen resulted in something extraordinary. Mili showed Picasso some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates, jumping in the dark, and the Spanish genius’s ever-stirring mind began to race.
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This series of photographs, known ever since as Picasso’s “light drawings,” were made with a small electric light in a darkened room; in effect, the images vanished as soon as they were created and yet they still live, six decades later, in Mili’s playful, hypnotic images. Many of them were also put on display in early 1950 in a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
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Red Bud blooming on river walk today.
On Merced River about 20 miles downstream from Yosemite Valley.
Walked down a dirt road that goes to some campgrounds.
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Eastern Sierra Nevada. "Heart Lake" located above Rock Creek Lake Rd off Hwy 395. Taken last summer, posted since there
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haven't been a lot of new photos posted this weekend!
AIPAC Email from Bernie Sanders. WTF ?? I mean, seriously, What The Fuck??!!
The email I just rec'd from Sen. Bernie Sanders:
You know it. I know it. The current American political system is corrupt.
You get to cast one vote. Billionaires get to spend hundreds of millions supporting or defeating candidates of their choice. That’s not democracy. That’s Oligarchy. And that’s why we must overturn the disastrous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
But, in the mean time, living within this corrupt campaign finance system, we have to fight back and support progressive candidates under attack from right-wing billionaires.
One example.
As you may have heard, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and their billionaire-backed Super PAC are planning a $100 million campaign targeting progressive members of Congress this election.
If we do not support those members, I fear that no one will.
So today, I am reaching out asking you to split a donation between Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee and my campaign. If that's all you need to hear, use this link.
https://act.berniesanders.com/go/defend-progressives
Otherwise, let me be as blunt as I can about what is happening here:
AIPAC and other groups rely on right-wing billionaires in order to influence primary races and defeat progressives. They spend unlimited amounts of money to undermine our democracy, mislead voters, and maintain the status quo. When we talk about billionaires buying candidates and elections, this is exactly what we are talking about.
During the 2022 campaign, they spent $33 million largely attacking progressive candidates and supporting their right-wing opponents.
They spent more than $3 million attacking Summer Lee in Pennsylvania. They spent more than $1 million defeating Jessica Cisneros in her primary, and they spent significant sums of money to defeat Nina Turner in her primary.
They do it through a Super PAC ironically named the United Democracy Project. Yet, despite their “democracy” project, AIPAC endorsed over 100 election-denying Republicans who refused to certify Biden’s election and are funded by billionaires who want a "two-party" system that is united in support of large corporations and the rich. And, quite cynically, for an organization whose mission is to support "Pro-Israel” candidates, their ads attacking progressives often have nothing to do with that issue at all. They don't even have the courage to talk about the issue they ostensibly support in their ads.
Cowards and hypocrites!
In this election, AIPAC is expected to spend $100 million just to try and unseat progressive members of Congress who dare to speak out about what's going on in Gaza. Yes. As a candidate, all you have to do is speak out against the horrific and destructive war that Israel is waging against the Palestinian people and you will find yourself on the AIPAC Hitlist - and be the recipient of large amounts of money trying to defeat you.
It is also no coincidence that most of the candidates AIPAC targets are women and people of color, and they are almost all progressives who center their campaigns and their work in Congress on protecting the needs of the working people of this country.
So it will surprise no one to hear that the top donors to AIPAC's super PAC are a who's who of financial service industries: Highfields Capital Management, JLL Partners, Saban Capital Group, the right-wing founder of Home Depot, and more. They spend unlimited amounts of money to undermine our democracy, mislead voters, and maintain the status quo.
Billionaire participation in elections is nothing new but, every election cycle, they become bolder and more influential. And the elections of 2024 are shaping up to be the most dangerous yet — with progressives often the target.
So what can we do about it?
First, the progressive members of Congress being attacked by AIPAC deserve the full financial and organizational support of the Democratic Party establishment in their races. When progressives run against sitting members of Congress, the entire Democratic Party leadership contributes to the more conservative Democrat and floods their district with events and fundraisers. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, the progressive members of Congress deserve no less support from their House colleagues and leadership.
But these candidates need our help as well, because it would be a tragedy if Jamaal Bowman and Summer Lee were replaced in Congress by some conservative Democrat at a time when progressive voices are needed more and more.
So I am once again asking for your financial support:
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And btw, the Prog in Team Prog is for the "Progressive" Rock genre of music - not about politics.
Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View last Monday 3.18.24
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Kind of rare rainbow effect in the mist of Bridalveil Fall
Israeli settlers step up attacks on Palestinian farms, expanding West Bank outposts
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/23/1236628495/israel-settlers-attack-west-bank-palestinians-settlement-outpostsAbout 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to the United Nations' human rights office. Israel has promoted the settlements, which much of the international community condemns as a violation of international law. But settlers are trying to expand those settlements by building a network of smaller outposts, without Israeli government approval, and eating into more Palestinian land. The U.N. human rights office says there are now more than 160 unauthorized outposts in the region. Violent settlers and unauthorized outposts are a growing source of tension between Israel and the United States.
Weiman says settlers have stepped up attacks on Palestinian communities while the world's attention has been focused on the war in Gaza triggered by the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack in Israel.
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Palestinian schools have also been recently bulldozed there.
2023's Most Federally Dependent States - WalletHub
I haven’t seen this posted here, so here goes. Once again proving that “independent conservative states know how to run economies better” is BULLSHIT.
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https://kbhbradio.com/2023s-most-least-federally-dependent-states-wallethub-study/
Most Federally Dependent
1. Alaska
2. West Virginia
3. Mississippi
4. Kentucky
5. New Mexico
6. Wyoming
7. South Carolina
8. Arizona
9. Montana
10. Louisiana
Least Federally Dependent
41. Nevada
42. Delaware
43. Iowa
44. Massachusetts
45. California
46. Illinois
47. Kansas
48. Utah
49. Washington
50. New Jersey
John Candy's day in NFL history. He died 30 yrs ago today. Super Bowl XTVideo w/ Candy included
Legendary comedic actor John Candy passed away 30 years ago today
Here's his place in #NFL history
Before embarking on their 92-yard drive to win Super Bowl XXIII, #49ers quarterback Joe Montana spots Candy standing behind the far end zone and points him out to Harris Barton.
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